Creativity & Meditation Coaching
I help thoughtful people build a calm, responsive inner life—and channel that clarity into creative work that actually matters to them.
Some examples of what we can work on together:
- Establish a joyful, sustainable meditation habit (even if you’ve “failed” at consistency before)
- Learn walking meditation you can take on coffee walks, commutes, and everyday life
- Practice limitless goodwill (metta) to soften self-criticism and expand your sense of possibility
- Explore IFS-inspired “Parts” work: letting the scared, ambitious, or perfectionist parts be heard
- Overcome writer’s block and develop consistent creative output
- Build authentic content strategy that showcases the depth of your expertise
- Launch a portfolio of digital products and services
This may be for you if:
MEDITATION THAT WORKS WITH, NOT AGAINST, YOUR BRAIN
- Traditional meditation instructions feel too rigid, moralistic, or mystical for how your mind works.
- You like neuroscience, frameworks, and clear metaphors.
- You’re drawn to Buddhist perspectives, but want them bridged to modern psychology and everyday life.
CREATIVE WORK GROUNDED IN CALM
- You have creative ambitions but self-criticism or anxiety gets in the way.
- Traditional audience-building methods feel inauthentic—you’re seeking real connections, not performative engagement.
- You want to “write like a marathon runner”—develop specialized endurance for the long haul.
INTEGRATION INTO REAL LIFE (NOT A PERFECT MONK OR PRODUCTIVITY-HACKER VERSION OF YOU)
- You want a toolkit you can use on walks, in airports, between meetings—not only on a cushion or at your desk.
- You want creativity and calm to reinforce each other, not compete.
What 8 sessions can look like
This is a sample arc. In practice, we adapt based on what actually happens in your life.
Phase 1–2: Foundations of Calm & Habit
- Experiment with walking meditation: normal-pace walks, mindful steps, maybe with coffee in hand.
- Learn limitless goodwill (metta) practices that include you, not just other people.
- Play with habit scaffolding: streak-tracking, tiny rituals, and low-guilt restarts when you “fall off.”
- Identify creative blocks and what’s really underneath them.
Phase 3–4: Parts, Feelings & What’s Actually in the Way
- Explore IFS-inspired “Parts”: the ambitious part, the anxious part, the inner critic.
- Work gently with “big” questions that trigger that hot, urgent feeling in the chest.
- Examine what you’ve labeled as “luxury” in your life—rest, joy, creativity—and what conditions you’ve attached to deserving them.
Phase 5–6: Investigation, Not Fixing
- Practice “giving up” / doing-nothing meditation and Loch Kelly–style glimpses: nothing to fix, just notice.
- Distinguish between investigating experience vs. trying to fix yourself.
- Apply this same gentle investigation to creative blocks—what if there’s nothing wrong with you?
Phase 7–8: Integration & Sustainable Practice
- Reverse classroom: you coach me through hypothetical scenarios, mapping them back to your own practice.
- Reflect on signs of progress that are not streak counts: reduced effort, more options, softer self-talk.
- Design a “practice for the rest of your life” plan—both meditation and creative work—that feels light, kind, and realistically sustainable.
Throughout, you can send short voice memos or texts between sessions—even on days you didn’t meditate or write. Those “missed” days are often the most informative.
FAQ
Why 8 sessions over ~2-3 months?
Behavior change takes time.
A 2009 study in the European Journal of Social Psychology found it took an average of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic, with a range of 18–254 days. Eight sessions gives us enough time to experiment, adjust, and notice real shifts—without turning this into a lifelong project before you’ve seen any ROI.
We can always slow the pace if life or work gets intense.
How do we plan without getting locked into a rigid plan?
We’ll start from a loose arc (like the phases above), then adapt based on what actually happens in your life and practice.
We track “progress” by decreases in stress and effort around your key challenges, not by how perfectly you followed a plan. New shadow qualities will almost certainly emerge, and that’s a feature, not a bug.
What is your coaching style?
My goal is to be the least stressful coach you’ve ever had.
I’ve been through extremely intense, achievement-oriented environments (PhD training, powerlifting), and I don’t believe we need to recreate that dynamic for practice to be effective. We’ll use structure and accountability, but in service of kindness.
How much does this cost?
I charge USD$2800.00 for 8 x 1-hour sessions with direct message support between sessions. For those who are unable to make this financial exchange but are in need of support, you will not be turned away.